PEGS
Cotton Gin
Slavery
Southern States
Northern States
100
Slavery
What is the Social issue that divided the country into the North and South.
100
Eli Whitney
Who is the man who invented the Cotton Gin?
100
North
Who was anti-slavery?
100
Agriculture (farming)
What is the main way to make money in the South.
100
Factories (industry)
What is the main way to make money in the North?
200
Sectionalism
What is the Geographical issue that divided the country into the North and South?
200
50 lbs a day
What is how much cotton could be processed a day after the cotton gin was invented?
200
South
Who was pro-slavery?
200
#1 cash crop
What is cotton?
200
Immigrants
Who worked in the factories and were paid for their labor?
300
Tariff Taxes
What is the Economical issue that divided the country into the North and South?
300
Cotton Kingdom
What did the South become known as after the invention of the cotton gin?
300
Africa
Where slaves were kidnapped from?
300
Plantations
What is where slaves were forced to work for free?
300
Abolitionist
What were people called who wanted to end slavery?
400
States' Rights
What is the Political issue that divided the country into the North and South?
400
Slaves
Who was needed to pick the cotton and run the cotton gins?
400
4 million
What is the number of slaves in Texas in the 1860s?
400
Cotton Kingdom
What the South became known as?
400
Felt the Federal government should have more power than states.
What is how northerners felt about states' rights?
500
States' Rights, Tariff Taxes, Sectionalism and Slavery.
What is the "Wedges of Separation" that led to the Civil War?
500
Removed seeds from cotton
What is the cotton gin?
500
Anglo-Americans
What is people who owned slaves/ plantation owners?
500
Pro-Slavery
What is Southerners view on slavery?
500
Anti-slavery
What is the northerners social view of slavery?
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